Signs You've Been in the Theatre Too Much:

1. Your weekend consists of Monday, and only Monday.

2. "Q" is not just a letter.

3. National holidays that fall on Monday seem pointless to you.

4. You know more than one theory for the origin of the name "green room."

5. You can only read from a light that is blue.

6. You consider the red part of the stoplight the "standby."

7. You can't remember what daylight looks like.

8. You feel naked without your keys attached to your belt loop, or your belt without your Maglite, Leatherman, and Gerber.

9. You know tie-line has several uses---shoelaces, belts, ponytail holders...

10. 95% of your wardrobe is black.

11. You watch the Super Bowl, waiting for intermission, not half-time.

12. You tell more stories of what went wrong on shows you've done than what went smoothly.

13. You start wondering what it feels like to be a prop.

14. You know anything can be fixed with gaff tape, Mortite, sculpter-coat, a sharpie, tie-line, and a safety pin.

15. Your diet consists of fast food or microwaved food.

16. Your Halloween costume in some way utilizes running blacks and gaff tape.

17. Varying your diet means ordering the #2 instead of the #3 or eating with your left hand instead of your right.

18. You understand the jokes in Forbidden Broadway.

19. You insist on spelling "theatre" with an "re" not an "er".

20. People recognize you by the sound of your keys jingling down the hallway.

21. Going to a restaurant means ordering and sitting down in McDonald's rather than the drive-thru.

22. You'd heard of Mandy Patinkin before he was on Chicago Hope.

23. "Practical" and "flat" are nouns.

24. Instead of saying that you're leaving, you say you're "exiting."

25. At home, you "strike" your dishes to the kitchen.

26. If someone asks you what time it is, you respond with something like, "Half hour 'til half hour."

27. Any space you walk into you automatically check the sight lines and count the house.

28. If you know, to the penny, what the standard out of town per diem tax deduction is.

29. You find yourself glow-taping your steps at home.

30. Instead of lint, you find spike tape at the bottom of the dryer.

31. When watching a show as an audience member, you automatically start your stopwatch when the lights come up at intermission.

32. when the lights go out in your house you expect there to be applause

33. When you begin to think that pancake make-up looks better than your everyday variety.

34. When you look for a dresser... and you're in your own room.

35. When you no longer want to hear about Rent, and you know EVERY line!

36. Your studying for your psych exam and someone asks, "what are you doing?" You answer with, "I'm learning my lines."

37. You spontaneously burst into song or quote lines when they have something to do with the conversation.

38. You've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show at least once, if not more.

39. Your sitting in the movie theatre with your friends and when the lights start to dim you say, "Light cue 2.5, go." or "House lights out, go."

40. You look at everyone funny when they ask if you've been sick or at home for the week.

41. You put on makeup and your not even going out.

42. You know more gay guys than you know straight ones.

43. You start using silly terminology like "happy bubbles."

44. You know a ghost light is not the iridescent glow from a spirit of the dead.

45. You wonder why everyone thinks dressing up for Halloween is so much fun.

46. You don't even worry about your liver anymore. Your vocal chords, on the other hand, are another story.


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